Acts 17:20

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

The things you are saying are new to us. We have never heard this teaching before, and we want to know what it means.”

Cross References

1 Peter 4:4

Now those “friends” think it is strange that you no longer join them in all the wild and wasteful things they do. And so they say bad things about you.

1 Corinthians 2:14

People who do not have God’s Spirit do not accept the things that come from his Spirit. They think these things are foolish. They cannot understand them, because they can only be understood with the Spirit’s help.

1 Corinthians 1:23

But this is the message we tell everyone: Christ was killed on a cross. This message is a problem for Jews, and to other people it is nonsense.

Hosea 8:12

Even if I wrote 10,000 laws for Ephraim, he would treat them as if they were for some stranger.

1 Corinthians 1:18

The teaching about the cross seems foolish to those who are lost. But to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Hebrews 5:11

We have many things to tell you about this. But it is hard to explain because you have stopped trying to understand.

Acts 10:17

Peter wondered what this vision meant. The men Cornelius sent had found Simon’s house. They were standing at the door.

Acts 2:12

The people were all amazed and confused. They asked each other, “What is happening?”

John 6:60

When Jesus’ followers heard this, many of them said, “This teaching is hard. Who can accept it?”

Mark 9:10

So the followers waited to say anything about what they saw. But they discussed among themselves what Jesus meant about rising from death.

Acts 17:19

They took Paul to a meeting of the Areopagus council. They said, “Please explain to us this new idea that you have been teaching.

Acts 17:21

(The people of Athens and the foreigners who lived there spent all their time either telling or listening to all the latest ideas.)